Pack 1 pick 3: Aerial Formation Magma Spray Eagle of the Watch Font of Fertility Pharika's Chosen Font of Fortunes Pheres-Band Thunderhoof Gluttonous Cyclops --> Bloodcrazed Hoplite Spiteful Blow Brain Maggot Battlefield Thaumaturge Island
Pack 1 pick 4: Rouse the Mob Font of Vigor Oakheart Dryads Thassa's Devourer Desecration Plague Flamespeaker's Will Cast into Darkness Oreskos Swiftclaw Ritual of the Returned --> Triton Cavalry Skybind Island
Pack 1 pick 5: Market Festival Desecration Plague Rouse the Mob Armament of Nyx Font of Ire --> Bloodcrazed Hoplite Oreskos Swiftclaw Ravenous Leucrocota Gold-Forged Sentinel Thassa's Ire Forest
Pack 1 pick 6: Rouse the Mob Font of Vigor --> Magma Spray Thassa's Devourer Desecration Plague Flamespeaker's Will Oreskos Swiftclaw Blinding Flare Skybind Plains
Pack 1 pick 7: Font of Return Font of Fortunes --> Magma Spray Harvestguard Alseids Returned Reveler Starfall Stonewise Fortifier Spite of Mogis Plains
Pack 1 pick 8: Humbler of Mortals Triton Shorestalker --> Triton Shorestalker Font of Ire Mortal Obstinacy Eidolon of Rhetoric Bearer of the Heavens Island
Pack 1 pick 9: Godhunter Octopus --> Sigiled Skink Font of Vigor Kruphix's Insight Bladetusk Boar Mortal Obstinacy Island
Pack 1 pick 10: Market Festival Rotted Hulk --> Pensive Minotaur Stonewise Fortifier Triton Shorestalker Island
Pack 1 pick 11: Font of Fertility Font of Fortunes Gluttonous Cyclops --> Spiteful Blow Island
Pack 1 pick 12: Font of Vigor Flamespeaker's Will --> Ritual of the Returned Island
Pack 1 pick 13: Market Festival --> Font of Ire Forest
Pack 1 pick 14: --> Font of Vigor Plains
Pack 1 pick 15: --> Plains
------ BNG ------
Pack 2 pick 1: Marshmist Titan Nyxborn Wolf Floodtide Serpent Rise to the Challenge Griffin Dreamfinder Nyxborn Eidolon Claim of Erebos Deepwater Hypnotist Nyxborn Shieldmate --> Fall of the Hammer Archetype of Aggression Glimpse the Sun God Graverobber Spider Eidolon of Countless Battles Forest
Pack 2 pick 2: Marshmist Titan Nyxborn Wolf Floodtide Serpent Rise to the Challenge Griffin Dreamfinder Nyxborn Eidolon Claim of Erebos Deepwater Hypnotist --> Fall of the Hammer Thassa's Rebuff Akroan Phalanx Drown in Sorrow Astral Cornucopia Plains
Pack 2 pick 3: Setessan Starbreaker Forsaken Drifters Excoriate Scouring Sands Necrobite --> Kragma Butcher Loyal Pegasus Elite Skirmisher Mortal's Resolve Archetype of Imagination Lightning Volley Scourge of Skola Vale Island
Pack 2 pick 4: Satyr Wayfinder Pharagax Giant Retraction Helix --> Deepwater Hypnotist Crypsis Reckless Reveler Grisly Transformation Elite Skirmisher Reap What Is Sown Dawn to Dusk Fated Infatuation Island
Pack 2 pick 5: Hold at Bay Setessan Starbreaker Weight of the Underworld Sphinx's Disciple Warchanter of Mogis Nullify Cyclops of One-Eyed Pass Necrobite --> Stormcaller of Keranos Fanatic of Xenagos Island
Pack 2 pick 6: Hold at Bay Setessan Starbreaker Weight of the Underworld --> Sphinx's Disciple Warchanter of Mogis Revoke Existence Cyclops of One-Eyed Pass Necrobite Eternity Snare Mountain
Pack 2 pick 7: Warchanter of Mogis Revoke Existence Nyxborn Wolf Evanescent Intellect Epiphany Storm Pheres-Band Tromper --> Archetype of Aggression Heroes' Podium Swamp
Pack 2 pick 8: Weight of the Underworld Divination Karametra's Favor --> Stratus Walk Peregrination Siren Song Lyre Archetype of Finality Swamp
Pack 2 pick 12: Satyr Wayfinder --> Reckless Reveler Reap What Is Sown Island
Pack 2 pick 13: Hold at Bay --> Warchanter of Mogis Island
Pack 2 pick 14: --> Cyclops of One-Eyed Pass Mountain
Pack 2 pick 15: --> Swamp
------ THS ------
Pack 3 pick 1: Ill-Tempered Cyclops Guardians of Meletis Battlewise Valor Griptide Satyr Hedonist Plains Leonin Snarecaster Feral Invocation Traveler's Amulet Shredding Winds Magma Jet Rescue from the Underworld Fanatic of Mogis --> Purphoros, God of the Forge Plains
Pack 3 pick 5: Nylea's Disciple Stymied Hopes Nessian Courser Lash of the Whip --> Minotaur Skullcleaver Pharika's Cure Defend the Hearth Leonin Snarecaster Setessan Griffin Triton Shorethief Mountain
Pack 3 pick 6: Gods Willing Traveling Philosopher --> Aqueous Form Silent Artisan Savage Surge Opaline Unicorn Glare of Heresy Destructive Revelry Decorated Griffin Forest
Pack 3 pick 7: March of the Returned --> Rage of Purphoros Satyr Hedonist Read the Bones Last Breath Unknown Shores Boon of Erebos Chronicler of Heroes Mountain
A nice aggro curve, but a sure underdog to any decent UB or UG deck. I was quite surprised when I won the draft. The high point came in the decider of the finals, where my sideboarded Font of Ire won the race against a very aggressive GB deck on turn six.
I quite like full-block drafting. Just about any strategy has a chance, as long as you stick to it and have a clear vision of what your deck wants to do. This deck admittedly has a few cards that don't fit, like the Champion and maybe the Starfish, but Starfish is just too good to be left out of any deck, no matter how aggressive.
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I think Starfish is a great card for aggro because it shores up your main weakness; topdecking land.
Obviously this doesn't apply to Constructed formats, but free Scry in Limited is insane because it provides consistency to inherently inconsistent decks.
Just goes to show how different people draft. My draft would have been completely different. On the first 8 picks (without looking ahead) I would have had: -Deicide (instant speed enchantment removal is almost a bomb in this set) - Mastiff - Magma Spray - Dryads - Swiftclaw - Swiftclaw - Fortifier - Rhetoric
So I would have been looking at white based aggro with either red or green in support. I would have been rewarded in pack 2 by Eidolon but the other picks aren't worth looking at as they are influenced by your picks. I would guess that this would have ended up in a very sick Boros aggro deck.
I think Starfish over Deicide is correct. I'm not passing scryfish for mostly anything, not even the Hind. Maybe a real bomb rare, like Silence the Believers or Hour of Need. In fact, p1p1 was one of the strongest I've seen lately, with Brawler, Nyx Weaver, Oreads all being stronger than the rare, IMO.
Chimera as pick two was an experiment, I really want to make it work sometime. But I got cut on blue pretty hard, so it didn't work. In fact, the whole point was to show a draft that went badly as far as signals go, and still got a nice deck out of it.
You certainly have a point about white, and it might have been the way to go. RW can have problems getting through, though, and blue gave me Deepwater Hypnotist, Aqueous Form and Stratus Walk to help with that. And four cheap pieces of red removal helped, obviously.
I thought the first (P1P3) Bloodcrazed hoplite pick was odd, and skink > boar is questionable. Hypnotist > Retraction Helix (P2P4) is also non standard...but maybe with R it's better. Hypnotist for me just gets in for 2 once or twice and then they have 2 blockers. I guess if you get in for 4 it's done it's job.
P3 P10 I probably would have taken another deathbellow over the 4/3 for 4 but I guess you went for devotion here (and I would have had Boar in the 4 slot)
I like the chimera - it's nuts with an enchantrip. I probably would have taken Dakra Mystic to go with my starfish though.
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Skink over Boar is a question of which deck you're building. Skink is way better in aggro, and I like it slightly more overall. But then, it's a matter of preference.
Deathbellow is bad if you can't help it. You need pump or black mana to make it good. But the 4 power for four mana is exactly the top of the curve I needed. Speaking of devotion, Fanatic would probably have done more damage than the God; but God is cooler So is Chimera over the Mystic. Sometimes I just want to try for something offbeat.
Looking back, probably the best outcome would have been if I picked the Oreads p1p1. It's a legitimate first pick, as a build-around card. I would have ended with a mono-red deck with three Magma Spray and two Skinks, as I would probably get more red in pack two.
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So is Chimera over the Mystic. Sometimes I just want to try for something offbeat.